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Arts Highlights
In the D-E Art & Design and Performing Arts Departments, students and their teachers and families by extension were able to explore and celebrate selfexpression in myriad ways. To experience more D-E arts programs, events, and initiatives, please visit d-e.org/arts or scan the QR code below.
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Scholastic Arts Award Winners
In its 99th anniversary, the Scholastic Art Awards recognize and celebrate young student artists across the country. 12 Dwight-Englewood students won NJ Regional Art Awards from Honorable Mentions, Silver Keys, and Gold Keys. Congratulations to all the participants for the distinguished honor!
Scholastic Art Award Recipients:
fAustin Kim ’26, Honorable Mention, Film fBodhi Mathur ’23, Silver Key & Honorable Mention, Drawing fDiane Cho ’23, Honorable Mention, Jewelry fEllen Chung ’22, 7 Gold Keys, 5 Silver Keys, 6 Honorable
Mentions fEmma Hsu ’25, Silver Key, Digital Art fIsabella Morales ’26, Gold Key, Digital Art fHyeri Chun ’22, 3 Gold Keys, 2 Honorable Mentions, fJayla Willis ’24, Gold Key, Comic Art fMargaret Yan ’23, Honorable Mention, Drawing fSamantha Lee ’23, Silver Key & Honorable Mentions, Drawing fTessa Li ’24, Silver Key, Digital Art fZiyu “Judy” Zhang ’24, Gold Key, Photography
AP Gallery Wall 2022
D-E’s Visual Art Department presented the “AP Gallery Wall 2022”! This year’s cohort of AP Art students were excited to showcase select pieces from their ongoing visual portfolios. AP Art is a yearlong course typically taken by juniors and seniors interested in the rigorous process of portfolio creation. As part of the CollegeBoard’s AP exam, students submit up to 20 artworks that demonstrate their design thinking, unique style, and breadth of skill. Many students utilize the course to apply to top art schools across the country.
This year’s cohort led by Visual Arts chair, Marisol Diaz, displayed an incredible range of twodimensional, three-dimensional, and drawing pieces. Each work is expected to demonstrate skillful synthesis of materials, processes, and ideas. The “AP Gallery Wall” was an opportunity for the community to appreciate the dedication and AP Gallery Wall 2022 Artists: thoughtfulness of these students. Congratulations fAmber Carr ’22 to all! fBen Tausner ’22 fBodhi Mathur ’23 fEmma Leifer ’23 fHugo Louis ’23 fHyeri Chun ’22 fLexi Altirs ’22 fLiv Ilasz ’22 fOlivia Muttart ’22 fNicole Hirsch ’22 fSamantha Lee ’23 fSophia Seriale ’22 fTaryn Silver ’23
Pippin The Upper School Winter Musical
This past winter, D-E’s Performing Arts produced the critically acclaimed musical, Pippin. Created by Stephen Schwartz and directed by D-E’s Robert Murphy, the cast and crew worked tirelessly to bring a fabulous show. Although based on two historical characters from the Middle Ages, Charlemagne (Charles the Great) and his son Pippin, the musical’s story is purely fictitious, albeit some might say a bit allegorical. However, it represents the historically existential theme of the young person seeking meaning in their life, examining Pippin’s need to “do something truly fulfilling.” Using the brilliant storytelling mechanism of players in a magical acting troupe, the ensemble cast guides Pippin to an ultimate discovery. The musical raises questions both poignant and ironic, playful and parodic, as it moves through the realistic to the fantastical.
As a metafictional story, Pippin was another wonderful way to bring audiences back into the live theater! Congratulations to the faculty, cast, and crew for a spectacular performance!
Scholastic Award Writing Winners
Lower School Science teachers, Julie Pugkhem and Yi Li, are If the Scholastic Art Awards is one side of a coin, the Scholastic Writing Awards represents the flipside. Since 1923, the Scholastic Writing Awards has offered the opportunity for young writers, poets, and lyricists to express themselves. Both awards celebrate the importance of artmaking and craftsmanship. This year, 11 Dwight-Englewood students won awards ranging from Honorable Mentions, Silver Keys, & Gold Keys. Congratulations to all the participants.
Scholastic Writing Award Recipients:
fAidan Hunter ’23, Silver Key, Critical Essay fCasey Law ’25, Silver Key, Poetry fDarby Lee-Stack ’23, Silver Key, Poetry fEmma Hsu ’25, Honorable Mention, Poetry fJosie Blough ’23, Honorable Mention, Short Story fJoseph Chung ’22, Silver Key, Critical Essay fSabrina Lu ’23, Gold Key, Poetry fSarah Ng ’24, Silver Key, Flash Fiction fSasha Rhee ’23, Honorable Mention, Poetry fTessa Li ’24, Silver Key, Gold Key, Science Fiction fZiyu “Judy” Zhang ’24, Silver Key, Memoir
Enjoy these podcasts as D-E’s young writers read their award-winning stories:
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This is not a story of hope. The world’s end came in flames. A planet previously holding life, bountiful and luscious, would be reduced to nothing but a scorched rock floating in uncaring space. There was nothing humanity could do about it, no possible way armageddon could have been prevented and no conceivable method of future survival. It was fire which had birthed humans, and it was fire that would now end them.
The creatures first came from the smallest of candles. When lighting a flame at night, it was discovered that the small dancing sparks would form hundreds of tiny hands which reached out to grab at one’s fingers. They tore at weaker flesh, searing and bleaching bones underneath with their white hot flames..
Initially, they were easily avoided, as all it took was a small glass covering to stop their wrath. Time passed, and the glass melted away under the force of a candle’s rage. With time, the fireplace, a place of warmth and shelter, became cruel and unsafe, as the larger tendrils of fire morphed into gnarled arms. They twisted and writhed into columns of agonizing heat that reached out towards the unsuspecting, melting what they grabbed and charring what they merely grazed. Humanity was plunged into a daily darkness, forced to shy away from even the smallest of lights after the sun disappeared.
As human nature goes, humanity sought to take advantage of a dark situation. The first to utilize the small, vicious creatures were rogues and power hungry traitors. They set ships and castles ablaze, allowing them to rob to their hearts’ content, becoming as rich as kings and queens through a deadly business.
The kings and queens themselves harnessed the power of fire and fought many horrific and glorious battles by moonlight and under star-filled skies, leaving hills and villages scorched and barren in their wake. Their power grew, as the emberic warriors underneath their control amassed in numbers...
